DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Administration for Children and Families

Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM).

Consideration will be given to comments received by January 16, 2015.

42 CFR Part 433

Summary

This NPRM is intended to carry out the President's directives in Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review . The NPRM proposes revisions to make Child Support Enforcement program operations and enforcement procedures more flexible, more effective, and more efficient by recognizing the strength of existing state enforcement programs, advancements in technology that can enable improved collection rates, and the move toward electronic communication and document management. This NPRM proposes to improve and simplify program operations, and remove outmoded limitations to program innovations to better serve families. In addition, changes are proposed to clarify and correct technical provisions in existing regulations.